Peruse the library of clear, simple, gracious tutorials on the Pattern website.

If you want some immediate fun, convince yourself that you can parse a sentence in English and a sentence in Spanish immediately following the tutorials on the CLiPs Pattern website. E.g.,

markturner@MacIota:~$ python2.6

Python 2.6.9 (unknown, Sep 9 2014, 15:05:12)

[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.39)] on darwin

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> from pattern.en import parse

>>> s = 'This entire installation of python and Pattern and the parsing of an English sentence and a Spanish sentence was done from scratch on a MacBook Air over weak hotel wifi in an interval of five minutes'